11 Things We Learned This Week

According to the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, “it is far easier to make a crude, unsafe, unreliable nuclear explosive that might fit in the back of a truck than it is to make a safe, reliable weapon of known yield that can be delivered by missile or combat aircraft.”Photograph courtesy U.S. Navy

No 5 Road in Richmond, British Columbia, is home to about 20 places of worship: Buddhist, Sikh, and Hindu temples; a Sunni and a Shia Mosque; and several churches, preaching in English, Mandarin, Minnanese, Cantonese, Arabic, Hindi, and Punjabi. This isn’t that road! it’s a local park.Photograph by Grassbag, courtesy Wikimedia. CC-BY-SA-3.0

A team of state and federal biologists assisted in disentangling this big, beautiful right whale off Daytona Beach. The fishing line is still visible tangled in the whale’s body and trailing behind it.Photograph by NOAA News Archive